Obama Wants Your Pocket Knife

Beware! That folding knife in your pocket may turn you into a criminal if the Obama administration gets its way. Although there has been a lot of fear and speculation that the new administration wants to take your guns, the most pressing threat now is actually to your pocket knives. With the changing of the guard at U.S. Customs, that agency has now embarked on redefining "switchblades" under federal law to include a wide variety of one hand opening knives that never were intended to be prohibited. In fact, many of the knives U.S. Customs now seek to prohibit under the Federal Switchblade Law had not even been invented at the time of its enactment! Furthermore, four previous U.S. Customs ruling letters (prior administrations) specifically determined "assisted opening" knives not to be defined as switchblades.

This new proposed U.S. Customs regulation is so broad that thousands of pocket knives will fall under its sweep and millions of knife owners will be affected. The problem is not simply that imports will be banned (which is bad enough), but that the "agency determination" will be used by domestic courts and law enforcement to determine what a "switchblade" is under both federal and state laws. Many states, including New Hampshire, fail to define switchblades and simply rely on the federal definition.

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Better read that again Bubba. After I got tired of standing up, and getting beat over the head for my trouble I left this goat fucked political prison of a country and have been trying to find real freedom, preparing for the time we can take it back, and trying to avoid contributing to this ethically bankrupt and soon to be totalitarian mess.  And Every time I come back it's grown worse.  From your fucking bush and the "patriot" act to Obama the socialist, we're getting tag teamed and the only people who seem to see it are the idiotic loathsome right wing cranks, racists, and apocalyptic zionists.
And for the record, the likelihood that "women, the elderly and disabled" would be safer with knives, particularly without extensive training, is ludicrous.  They should have guns.